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4Ghz Core 2 Duo vs M.A.M.E. 0.120 (benchmark results)
TAG:
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--- Quote from: Havok on December 17, 2008, 09:53:43 pm ---Anyone with a high end system tried Firefox yet? It works on my AMD Sempron, but stutters a bit.
(Might be time to finally come back into the Intel fold, after a four year hiatus...)
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I've tried it on my P4 3.0 GHz and it runs fine, although I had read somewhere else that it would take a dual core for MAME to run the laserdisc games well.
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Did you hear dual core, or Core 2TM? Huge difference between the two.
Not that it really matters; that must have been incorrectly deduced from Cube Quest benchmarks. Cube Quest, the first laserdisk added to mame, is thought to be the most CPU intense laserdisk game, emulation-wise, and according to johnIV's benchmarks, a 3.0 GHz Core2TM emulates it easy, and that the harddrive speed is a major factor. Anyway, all other laserdisk games are thought to need less CPU power than Cube Quest, so trying to guess how much CPU they'll need from CQ numbers isn't well founded. I'm not surprised that a 3 Ghz P4 can run firefox.
FWIW, what harddrive are you using? 7200 rpm? (I'm checking if firefox is as HD limited as CQ.)
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My harddrive is 7200 rpm, yes. I'm just glad I took a shot at grabbing the CHD, even though I wasn't sure how it'd run on my system. That would've been a lot of GBs to download only to find out it didn't run well.
retrometro:
--- Quote from: Havok on December 17, 2008, 09:53:43 pm ---Anyone with a high end system tried Firefox yet? It works on my AMD Sempron, but stutters a bit.
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I forget, does firefox runon .127 or does it require .128 or higher. May attempt this week.
TAG:
--- Quote from: retrometro on December 21, 2008, 06:58:12 pm ---I forget, does firefox runon .127 or does it require .128 or higher. May attempt this week.
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It was added in one of the .127 updates (.127u4, I believe).
Paul Olson:
Well, I finally got a new motherboard for my cab computer, an ep45 ds3l, and I have an e8400. I am stable at 4ghz for about 9 minutes in orthos, then orthos crashes. My temp is at 67c, which seems high since I am using a zalman 9700. If I lower the overclock, orthos doesn't crash, but it just stops at around the same time, I think around 9:30 or so. In the log for one test, it read bye bye. How do you get it to stay running? I still have a lot of tweaking to try, and I am waiting on some ram. I had one stick die (from another comp, not related to the oc) and 1gig is a bit light. Should my temps be lower than this with this cooler at 4ghz?
I am trying to decide which OS to use. I would like to use xp64 for the extra speed (using soft-15khz, so I can't use Vista64), but it is a big tradeoff. I use the U-HID on my cab, and I can't program the encoder in 64bit. I need to take it out and program it from another computer, so that is not very good. If I can get this stable at 4ghz, what games would I actually lose by sticking with 32bit? I know there is a difference, but what games would be unplayable at full speed in 32bit, but are full speed in 64? If no games that I really care about are going to be affected, I will just stick with 32.
I am still learning this stuff, so I really don't know the answer to this. The ram I ordered today is 1066. Is it better to keep the multiplier lower and run the ram full rated speed, or is it better to run the multiplier higher?
Thanks,
Paul
taz-nz:
It's 2AM here right now, so I keep the answers short.
Install gigabyte easy tune 6, a try bumping the CPU PLL voltage just a bit to say 1.54v (1.5v is stock), it helps stablity often rasing the PLL voltage often let you get the same overclock with less Core Voltage. (if your only running DDR2-800 ram it will be overclocked to DDR2-900 and may not be stable unless you apply more voltage to it)
67c is high in my book, my CPU is running in the 45-55c at full load (and running way more voltage than you should be), sorry to say but the Zalman 9700 is way overrated, your better off with a 2x 120mm fans & tower type heatsink with 4 or more hear pipes.
Vista 64bit is the safer bet in the long run (though Windows 7 64bit is look good so far, I'm testing the beta currently ) XP64 isn't well supported, try looking a EnTech PowerStrip for running 15Khz , the lastest version runs under Vista 64bit, and while it may not be as simple to use as soft-15Khz I think you'll find it will let you run windows on your arcade monitor.
Higher FSB and lower Multiplier will give you greater FSB bandwidth and better preformance, catch is the high FSB will often needs more chipset voltage to get stable and thus your chipset will run hotter. with ddr2-1066 I'd run 500mhz FSB and, 8x CPU multiplier, 2x memory multiplier, if you can get it stable with out jacking the north bridge voltage to much.